The World Wide Web, also known as Web or WWW, is a collection of files called Web sites or Web pages that have information in text form, pictures, souns and videos apart from being connected with other files.





They are identified by a universal resource localizer (URL) that speficies the transference protocol, the address of the machine's Internet and the file's name. For example: a URL might be http://www.richmond.com.ar.

The computer programmes called explorers like Navigator, netscape or Internet Explorer, Microsoft, use the protocol http to get the files back. New kinds of files are created continually for the WWW that have, for example, or virtual reality (VRML).